Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “ο”

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GREULICH AND THEGRÜTLIANER

GREULICH. “OPEN LETTER TO THE HOTTINGEN GRÜTLI-VEREIN”[1]

GrütlianerNo. 230, 1916 (October 2, 1916).

Hermann Greulich, “Open Letter to the Hottingen Grütli-Verein”.

“STONES INSTEAD OF BREAD”

“FUNDAMENTAL DIVERGENCE IN APPRAISAL”

“NO ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCES DIVIDE US!”

“THE ‘NATIONALIST CHAFF’ IS SEPARATINGFROM THE ‘INTERNATIONALIST SOCIALIST WHEAT’”

No. 248, October 23, 1916. Editorial: “The ‘Nationalist Chaff’ Is Separating from the ‘Internationalist Socialist Wheat’” (as the representative of the Swiss Social-Democratic Party stated at thecongress of Italiansocialists of Switzerland).

“NOTES FOR A LECTURE”

No. 235, October 7, 1916. Comment on the Grütliprogramme.

“NATURALISATION OF FOREIGNERS”

No. 243 (October 17, 1916) andseveralbefore it (Nos. 237 (October 10)-243) carry articles on “Naturalisation of Foreigners”....

The committee of “nine” (including Greulich and Wullschleger) put forward a petition in 1912.

Nos. 242 and 243.

“PARTY OF GRÜTLI-VEREIN?”

Grütlianer, October 18, 1916. The “Social-Patriotic Party” of Switzerland.

“TRADE UNIONS AND THE MILITARY QUESTION”

“Moreover, the trade unions and trade union bodies are not in a position to carry out any real educational work in this field.

“Generalities, of which there is no shortage in the above-mentioned article, will not help. They are of as little use in convincing a person who—as is usually the case—has grown up with quite different views, as, say, in explaining the issues of the war in three sentences, or in making an impression on an impartial and unprejudiced reader by exaggerating the role of the Swiss armed forces in labour conflicts. One has only to consider the workers’ struggles in Italy, Spain, France and Germany, even in free America, to realise that Swiss conditions are still preferable to the Russian.

[1]Grütli-Verein—a bourgeois reformist organisation founded in Switzerland in 1838, long before the organisation of the Swiss Social-Democratic Party. The name is derived from the Union of Grütlians (conspirators), who rose against the Austrian oppression in the sixteenth century. In 1901 the Grütli-Verein affiliated to the Swiss Social-Democratic Party, but remained organisationally independent. Its newspaper,Grütlianer, followed a bourgeois-nationalist policy. In the First World War, the Grütli-Verein took up an extreme chauvinist position and became the mainstay of the Rightwing social-chauvinists. In November 1916, the Zurich Congress of the Swiss Social-Democratic Party declared that the GrütliVerein’s social-chauvinist activity was incompatible with membership of the Social-Democratic Party.